Handbook

How do artists tell true stories on stage? What are the prospects and challenges of making performance with real people’s stories, voices and histories? In this course, you will explore the contexts, practices and debates that surround “theatre of the real.” You will encounter how artists work with true stories in various genres, including autobiographical, verbatim, testimonial, documentary, tribunal, post-internet, immersive and installation theatre. You will also examine the difference between theatrical representation, participation and self-determination. The aim is for you to become an ethically informed spectator and producer of theatre made by, with and about real people and their communities.